DM644x designer's resource guide

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Contents 1 Getting started from DM6446 EVM & DVSDK 2 H/W designer's resource 3 Driver/LSP designer's resource 4 DaVinci Linux resource 5 S/W designer's resource 6 Remark 7 Training resource

Getting started from DM6446 EVM & DVSDK

• Here you can find the DM6446 EVM resource includes schematic, technical reference guide and so on.
• Here is DVEVM and DVSDK Overview.
• Register your DVEVM here by S/N of your DVEVM. Then you will be authorized to download the latest DVSDK,u-boot, flash burn tool, LSP and so on via same website. 

H/W designer's resource

1. Refer to DM6446 EVM H/W design.
2. Go through DM6446 silicon errata or DM6443 silicon errata or DM6441 silicon errata.
3. Know the power consumption of DM6446/3 or the power consumption of DM6441.
4. PCB design:
   • A. High Speed DSP Systems Design Reference Guide.
   • B. Understanding TI's PCB Routing Rule-Based DDR Timing Specification.
   • C. Implementing DDR2 PCB Layout on the TMS320DM644x DMSoC.
   • D. You can download the simulation models from the product folders, DM6446, DM6443, DM6441
   • E. USB 2.0 Board Design and Layout Guidelines.
5. Thermal Considerations For the DM64xx, DM64x, and C6000 Devices.
6. If your product uses USB, go through TMS320DM64xx USB Compliance Checklist.
7. TMS320C6000 DSP Designing for JTAG Emulation Reference Guide.
8. Hardware Design Checklist.

Driver/LSP designer's resource

1. Go through DM6446 silicon errata or DM6443 silicon errata or DM6441 silicon errata and know the silicon bug & the workaround.
2. Download the latest LSP and its datasheet by your my.ti.com account.
3. The utilities to boot and flash various TI DaVinci processors.

DaVinci Linux resource

1. DaVinci Linux Open Source
2. Linux Wiki Category
3. Download the LSPvia your my.ti.com account.
4. For Chinese customer, you can visit TI column of China Linux Forum.

S/W designer's resource

    ARM Application Engineer

1. GStreamer on TI DaVinci and OMAP.
2. Where to start for ARM application developers.

    Algorithm/Codec Engineer

1. Request Evaluation Codec From TI.
2. Quickly Getting Started On TI Codec Engine.
3. DM6446 Codecs.
4. C6000 cgtools and Optimization Techniques. 
5. Request TI Video Vision Library.
6. DM6446 VICP Library.
7. C64x+ Image/Video Library.
8. C64x+ IQMath Library - A Virtual Floating Point Engine.
9. C64x+ Math Library.

Remark

1. You can download TI S/W components SDK, DSP/BIOS, Codec Engine, xDAIS and so on.
2. You can download TI CodeGenerationTools via your my.ti.com account.
3. You may search/post a question on the TI forums.

Training resource

Training from TI.

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